255 pages ; 21 cm

Charles Simic is widely recognized as one of America's leading poets. Nominated for a Pulitzer Prize, Simic's Selected Poems, 1963-1983, was lauded as "easily the best volume of poetry published in 1985." In this newly expanded edition entitled Selected Early Poems, to which the author has added twenty-seven poems and extensively revised others, we are treated to Simic's terse style, incisive imagery, and often disturbing rendering of everyday experiences -- all coupled with a delightful sense of humor and more than a touch of mysticism

Rev. and expanded ed. of: Selected poems, 1963-1983. Rev. and expanded. 1990

Charles Simic is widely recognized as one of America's leading poets. Nominated for a Pulitzer Prize, Simic's Selected Poems, 1963-1983, was lauded as "easily the best volume of poetry published in 1985." In this newly expanded edition entitled Selected Early Poems, to which the author has added twenty-seven poems and extensively revised others, we are treated to Simic's terse style, incisive imagery, and often disturbing rendering of everyday experiences -- all coupled with a delightful sense of humor and more than a touch of mysticism

Butcher Shop -- Cockroach -- Tapestry -- Evening -- The Inner Man -- Pastoral -- Animals and Birds -- Fear -- Marching -- Chorus for One Voice -- Sleep -- Psalm -- Poem -- Summer Morning -- Dismantling the Silence -- Bestiary for the Fingers of My Right Hand -- Fork -- Spoon -- Knife -- My Shoes -- Ax -- Stone -- Poem without a Title -- Explorers -- Concerning My Neighbors, the Hittites -- Invention of Nothing -- errata -- The Bird -- Elementary Cosmogony -- Two Riddles -- Brooms -- Watermelons -- Watch Repair -- Traveling -- Needle -- Ballad -- Solving the Riddle -- The Place -- Breasts -- Charles Simic -- Closed House -- Solitude -- The Point -- The Pillow -- The Soup -- The Chicken without a Head -- White -- What the White Had to Say -- The Partial Explanation -- The Lesson -- A Landscape with Crutches -- The Variant -- The Summons -- Poem -- Nursery Rhyme -- Help Wanted -- Animal Acts -- Charon's Cosmology -- Happy End -- The Ballad of the Wheel -- A Wall -- The Guest -- Description -- The Terms -- Eraser -- Traveling Slaughterhouse -- Eyes Fastened with Pins -- Trees at Night -- Euclid Avenue -- The Prisoner -- A Day Marked with a Small White Stone -- Position without a Magnitude -- Untitled -- Primer -- School for Dark Thoughts -- Empire of Dreams -- Prodigy -- Baby Pictures of Famous Dictators -- Whispers -- Shirt -- Great Infirmities -- The Healer -- Navigator -- A Suitcase Strapped with a Rope -- Begotten of the Spleen -- Toy Factory -- The Little Tear Gland That Says -- The Stream -- Immortal Prankster -- Furniture Mover -- Elegy -- Note Slipped under a Door -- December Trees -- Grocery -- Classic Ballroom Dances -- Progress Report -- Harsh Climate -- Peaceful Kingdom -- Bedtime Story -- The Tomb of Stephane Mallarme -- Forest Birds -- Figuring -- History Book -- Black Days -- Fool's Paradise -- Body and Soul -- Venus -- Sewing Machine -- Gravity -- Northern Exposure -- Winter Night -- The Cold -- A Fall Day -- There They Stand Unaware of Their Wretchedness -- Further Adventures of Charles Simic -- Devotions -- Shortcut -- Old Couple -- Cold Blue Tinge -- The Writings of the Mystics -- Window Washer -- The Homeless -- Misfortune Is on the Way -- Prison -- The Overcoat -- The Game -- Gallows Etiquette -- In Midsummer Quiet -- Peaceful Trees -- The Unknown One -- Chairs -- My Beloved -- Gospel Hour -- A Quiet Talk with Oneself -- Hurricane Season -- Note -- An Evening with the Master -- Spoons with Realistic Dead Flies on Them -- History -- Rough Outline -- Strictly Bucolic -- Crows -- February -- Inheritance -- The Amazing Potato Peeler -- A Tub -- Fable -- Punch Minus Judy -- Small Wonders -- Piety -- Austerities -- Thus -- Shaving at Night -- Eastern European Cooking -- The Childhood of Parmenides -- Drawing the Triangle -- Interlude -- My Weariness of Epic Proportions -- Madonnas Touched Up with Goatees -- Rural Delivery -- Old Mountain Road -- The Great Horned Owl -- Autumn Air -- Midpoint -- Drawn to Perspective

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